Neville Goddard on Matthew 16:1-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Matthew 16 in context

Scripture Focus

1The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.

2He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.

3And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

4A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

Matthew 16:1-4

Biblical Context

Pharisees and Sadducees demand a sign from heaven. Jesus rebukes their outward judgment and notes they can read the sky but cannot discern the signs of the times; he offers the sign of Jonah and departs.

Neville's Inner Vision

To those who demand a sign from heaven, know that all signs you perceive outside you are reflections of your interior weather. The evening red sky you call fair weather is only your projected forecast of outer conditions; you are not reading the signs of the times because you have not awakened to who you really are. The sign of the times is not a future omen to chase; it is the instantaneous movement of your own consciousness, the inner weather that precedes events. When you discipline your attention to the I AM within, you discern not by looking outward but by feeling the mood you are imagining. The wicked and adulterous generation is your old self clinging to external evidence rather than recognizing the transformation already at hand—the Jonah sign: death to the old self and a birth into the new. If you realize you are the source of your signs, you will not beg for signs; you will inhabit the sovereign inner realm where reality is conceived and born.